Study: Three Southern Republican states more corrupt than Illinois

Friday

Jul 4, 2014 at 5:05 PM

The next time your cousin from Tupelo, or your aunt from Baton Rouge, or your in-laws from Chattanooga get on your case about the political corruption here in Illinois, respond with a snarky comment about people who live in glass houses.

You see, Illinois is not the most corrupt of the 50 states, and hasn’t been for quite a while.

HERE‘s the deal:

An academic study of public corruption from 1976 to 2008 found that Mississippi was the nation’s most corrupt state, followed by Louisiana, Tennessee, Illinois, Pennsylvania, Alabama, Alaska, South Dakota, Kentucky, Florida, Oklahoma, New York, Ohio, North Dakota, and South Carolina.

Any state more corrupt than Illinois—who’s seen four of its last seven governors go to prison—is on a whole other level of corrupt. So it figures it would be three southern Republican strongholds.

The next time your cousin from Tupelo, or your aunt from Baton Rouge, or your in-laws from Chattanooga get on your case about the political corruption here in Illinois, respond with a snarky comment about people who live in glass houses.

You see, Illinois is not the most corrupt of the 50 states, and hasn’t been for quite a while.

HERE‘s the deal:

An academic study of public corruption from 1976 to 2008 found that Mississippi was the nation’s most corrupt state, followed by Louisiana, Tennessee, Illinois, Pennsylvania, Alabama, Alaska, South Dakota, Kentucky, Florida, Oklahoma, New York, Ohio, North Dakota, and South Carolina.

Any state more corrupt than Illinois—who’s seen four of its last seven governors go to prison—is on a whole other level of corrupt. So it figures it would be three southern Republican strongholds.